In the performance, Mr. Jagger, accompanied by guitar legend Jeff Beck, sneers about “prayers” and warns listeners not to let Mr. Romney “cut your hair” — an apparent reference a much-talked-about incident from the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s high school days that has become a huge talking point for Democratic pundits and advocates.

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Here’s the verse:

Yeah, Mr. Romney, you know, he’s a menschBut he always plays it straight up thereYeah, Mr. Romney, he’s a hard workin’ manAnd he always says his prayerYeah, but there’s one little thing about himDon’t ever let him cut your hair.

The performance also included a clearly audible profanity that apparently went out unbleeped over the airwaves in most markets.

There’s no mention of President Obama in the song, but the anti-Romney references and the title — “Tea Party” — indicate the British rocker isn’t sitting on the fence this election.

Ironically, long before America’s anti-big government tea party came along, the Rolling Stones themselves were perhaps the world’s most famous tax protesters: In the early 1970s, the band fled to France to avoid England’s tax rates on the wealthy.

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David Eldridge joined The Washington Times in 1999 and over the next seven years helped lead the paper’s coverage of regional politics and government, Sept. 11, and the sniper attacks of 2002. In 2006, he was named managing editor of the paper’s website before moving on to editing and reporting stints at Roll Call, the Hill and InsideSources. He returned ...